Aims

The Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research was launched on 1st July 1999 at the University of Bristol. It is dedicated to multidisciplinary research on poverty in both the industrialised and developing world.

Over 50 academics in the Faculties of Social Sciences and Law, Medicine and Dentistry, Engineering and Science, together with colleagues from The Policy Press, are involved in a research-based initiative with the following aims:

The production of practical policies and solutions for the alleviation and eventual ending of world poverty.

Greater understanding of both the ‘scientific’ and ‘subjective' measurement of poverty.

Investigation into the causes of poverty.

Analysis of the costs and consequences of poverty for individuals, families, communities and societies.

Research into theoretical and conceptual issues of definition and perceptions of poverty.

Wide dissemination of the policy implications of research into poverty.

Collaborating Departments

Below is a list of the departments and centres collaborating to form the
Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, and a link to the
poverty-related publications by department: